What Maria spoke about.

23 Apr

2024

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Effective coordination of economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance - Speeding up and clarifying the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure – amending Regulation - Requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States – amending Directive (joint debate – Economic governance)

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Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, it is good and necessary to look at economic governance and to strengthen the budget of the European Union. It was necessary, there are some good things done, which lead to the possibility that Member States could press on the acceleration of investments, for example, not taking into account the deficit of co-financing on strategic investments. It…

23 Apr

2024

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Conclusions of the recent European Council meetings, in particular on a new European Competitiveness deal and the EU strategic agenda 2024-2029 (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are looking at competitiveness at the end of the mandate, at the statement by the Commission and the Council. The President of the Commission is performing well, because in five years she has not been able to sit in any plenary to hear the views of MEPs to the end. What performance should we talk about, Madam President? You have shown the gre…

22 Apr

2024

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Prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that we are ending this mandate with extremely important reports: combating forced labour. Although we have a convention from 1930, we must say that forced labour has not decreased. In just five years, from 2016 to 2021, it has increased by almost 3 million people who actually suffer from this forced labour. Why? Who are the worst? The…

11 Apr

2024

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Internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Common rules for the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Union’s electricity market design: Regulation - Union’s electricity market design: Directive (joint debate – Reform of the energy and electricity markets)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think it is an extraordinary thing that I am ending my mandate with this extremely important package. As co-rapporteur on behalf of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, we obviously wanted to make this package in such a way as to protect, on the one hand, vulnerable consumers, on the other hand, to take care of small and …

10 Apr

2024

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Discharge 2022 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, honourable Court of Auditors, I must say that I am frustrated when I heard the Commissioner say that the Commission's transparency is at the highest level. At the same time, we are well aware that we are struggling, both the Ombudsman, the Court of Auditors and we, the Committee on Budgetary Control, to find out what happened to the money and contracts concluded by the …

14 Mar

2024

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Return of Romanian national treasure illegally appropriated by Russia (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today's resolution is a sign that Romania needs solidarity. We are members of the European Union, we need support. Commissioner, you said it was a bilateral issue. Yes, but what is the purpose of the Union, after all? You should know that Romania is not now asking for the first time for the return of the treasure and to end with the robbery made…

13 Mar

2024

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Type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the Commission has taken the wrong approach, the Commission has taken the wrong approach: that environmental protection, the Green Deal, is in opposition to industrial policy. No, it must be neither industrial policy against environmental policy, nor vice versa. However, we must keep in mind that the transition from one technology to…

13 Mar

2024

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Guidelines for the 2025 Budget - Section III (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, of course, we are discussing the broad lines of the 2025 budget. Someone else will finalize: a new Commission, a new Parliament. My perplexity is why, if we always say that we must have social cohesion in the internal market, that we must support SMEs, that we must support research and innovation, why we do not arrive after so many years making bud…

13 Mar

2024

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo (debate)

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The Prime Minister has said here several times: “must, must, must”. I want to ask you whether, from what the Prime Minister has presented here, you understood that we all have equal opportunities in the European Union now? The Prime Minister was also Minister of Agriculture. I ask you, the Prime Minister has used the word ‘must’ several times (The speaker is interrupted for technical reasons). The…

12 Mar

2024

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Question Time with Commissioners - Preparedness of EU governments to combat foreign interference, including from Russia

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Mr President, Commissioner, of course we are debating a very important topic, especially since we have so many elections this year. Do you think it is important to be concerned about all elections, not just elections at the level of the European Parliament? Because, in the end, elections at local level, at national level, national parliaments, those will then influence the outcome of the elections…

12 Mar

2024

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Council decision inviting Member States to ratify the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) of the International Labour Organization (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is sad that this year, 2024, we are still discussing violence and harassment against women at work, but also on the street. Maybe we should do a prevention and maybe we should have a much better gender balance in all institutions, because when we have a female majority, there would probably be no violence and harassment in the workplace. I think…

29 Feb

2024

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Next steps towards greater patient safety by swiftly ensuring the availability of medical devices through a targeted transitional period (debate)

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Thank you, dear colleague, for your question. Yes, I'm an engineer by profession and I've never gone on improvisation. It is good to make sure that everything that is placed on the market also has the safety of using devices.…

29 Feb

2024

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Next steps towards greater patient safety by swiftly ensuring the availability of medical devices through a targeted transitional period (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is very good that we are discussing patient safety today. It's late. After 12 years, we're going to change the rules. Too much of us follow the ‘better late than never’ principle. Domnule comisar, în țara mea și în multe alte țări pacienții nu au acces la dispozitive. Be scheduled in three months for a C.T. or CT scan. Not to have access to a pr…

28 Feb

2024

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Strengthening European Defence in a volatile geopolitical landscape - Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2023 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2023 (joint debate - European security and defence)

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Madam President, Commissioner, we are discussing strengthening common defence. Very little has been said about peace. The President of the Commission leaves again after she has made her point of view known. It is not interesting to hear Parliament's views. Yes, of course we need to strengthen our defenses, but we also need to fight for peace. This is what European citizens expect, and look, my cou…

27 Feb

2024

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Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today I am glad that we are coming to talk about this regulation, which I fought for when I was in the employers' movement. I believe that geographical indications for wine, spirits, but also for agricultural products bring effects including in the circular economy, preserve cultural traditions, and small producers in rural areas can develop touris…

27 Feb

2024

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Unitary supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products - Unitary supplementary certificate for medicinal products - Supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products (recast) - Supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (recast) - Standard essential patents (joint debate - Patents)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, of course the regulation makes sense. We need to see how we can protect intellectual property. My problem, from the point of view of small and medium-sized enterprises, from the point of view of the internal market (I am the Vice-President of the internal market): I believe that the regulation will have detrimental effects on small, small and mediu…

27 Feb

2024

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Driving licences (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are discussing an extremely important thing if we start from statistics and we are well aware that we have a lot of road accidents. It was normal to come up with a proposal and improve traffic conditions. It is strange to hear colleagues here say that it would cost us to have a medical visit at 15 years old. I strongly support it, because we …

27 Feb

2024

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Multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 - Establishing the Ukraine Facility - Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (joint debate - multiannual financial framework revision)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, of course this is a step and it is the first step we are taking to revise the financial framework, but I am sceptical because, Commissioner, did you say, at the end of your presentation, 'the need to increase competitiveness'? I speak from an internal market perspective, I am the Vice-President of the internal market. It is not normal to review …

26 Feb

2024

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Tackling the inflation in food prices and its social consequences and root causes (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are discussing food price inflation. Commissioner, you came and told us a story here. Nothing happened. We're talking about causes, root causes. Do you know what the root cause is? It's speculation, Commissioner, because it's speculation. The farmer sells his wheat for less, but the bread is more expensive on the shelf. The farmer sells his milk…

26 Feb

2024

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Transparency and targeting of political advertising (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are talking about what we can do with this regulation so that there is this balance between transparency and the right to expression. We all know, I don't think there is a country where there has not been interference in elections, for example, an attack on democracy, as the Commissioner said. It's fine and we're taking some steps with the…

26 Feb

2024

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European Central Bank – annual report 2023 (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, Mrs Lagarde, I come from a more recent country in the European Union, Romania. The main task of the bank, as has been said here, is price stability. The fantastic loss has reached the citizens. We have a lot of poor citizens, Mrs. Lagarde, who can't even buy bread. Inflation has not been curbed. We have to go from results. "It means that the policies you have applied ha…

7 Feb

2024

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This is Europe - Debate with the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis (debate)

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Madam President, Mr President, dear Minister and the whole team, at first I want to thank you for describing my country so beautifully. That is so and I would like, dear colleagues, those who today have tried to blame her, to understand Romania. Visit her first, talk to the people there and understand her. Mr. President, I will be objective. I want to raise the issues that I have raised before all…

7 Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we have a priority debate with farmers on the street and the Commissioner for Agriculture is not here. How can we debate priority issues for agriculture without the Commissioner who has the job description to deal with it? Thank you, Mr Vice-President, Commissioner, for being here. Neither is the President, nor does she participate in priority d…

6 Feb

2024

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Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I will speak from a consumer perspective. I am the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Consumer Protection in the European Parliament. Of course, I am not a specialist, but I am an engineer and I support research and innovation, but it is absurd to apply the result of the research without making an impact analysis. We are talking here about people's …

5 Feb

2024

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I want to talk about the internal market, consumer protection and the protection of the internal market. We talk a lot, we debate a lot, the Commission makes cosmetics, but here we are, to serious violations of consumers' rights to know what they consume. Behold, we have farmers on the street all over Europe, because, yes, horsemeat is imported fro…